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A vast sunlit botanical garden with deep flower borders of delphiniums and roses, an ancient oak and a gravel path leading away between the beds

The living botanical world

Every click walks you deeper into the garden.

Twenty living gardens that shift with your season and the hour of your day. Learn what every plant needs, when to sow it, and how to keep it alive — free to read, always.

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Living sceneSummer in your hemisphere, golden hour where you arethe garden is following you

What waits inside

A botanical encyclopedia that behaves like a place.

Right now · Summer

The garden already knows what season you are in.

Peak growth. Water deeply, deadhead often, and harvest before the plants notice.

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  • Water less often, deeper

    One long soak beats five sprinkles. Water the soil at dusk, never the leaves at noon.

  • Deadhead relentlessly

    Every seedhead you remove buys another flush of flower from roses, dahlias and sweet peas.

  • Shade the glasshouse

    Vent early and wash the glass with shading paint before the tomatoes scorch.

Travel by garden

Twenty worlds, each with its own weather.

All gardens

Designed and wild

Hot places and high places

Under glass and good to eat

The encyclopedia

613 species, written by people who have killed a few.

Every entry carries the one piece of advice that decides whether the plant lives: the prune that makes wisteria flower, the depth that keeps a peony barren, the watering habit that rots an aloe from the base.

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